New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization /

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Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society worked to send American blacks to resettle in Africa. From inception, however, its foundational ethos has been debated. These debates continued long after the effective end of the ACS during WWI through the Civil Rights movement to today, when eve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Miller, Randall M. (writer of foreword.), Harrold, Stanley (writer of foreword.), Hetrick, Matthew J. (Editor ), Tomek, Beverly C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
American Colonization Society.
African Americans > Colonization.
HISTORY > African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Noirs americains > Colonisation > Liberia.
African Americans > Colonization > Liberia.
United States.
Liberia.
États-Unis > Histoire.
Liberia > Histoire.
United States > History.
Liberia > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
  • Introduction: the past, present, and future of colonization studies / Beverly C. Tomek
  • Part I: Reconsidering the missionary dimensions of colonization. Race, sympathy, and missionary sensibility in the New England colonization movement / Gayle L. Kenny
  • "The heathen are demanding the gospel": conversion, redemption, and African colonization / Ben Wright
  • "He be God who made dis man": Christianity and conversion in nineteenth-century Liberia / Andrew N. Wegmann
  • "Teaching them to observe all things": African American women, the great commission, and Liberia in the nineteenth century / Debra Newman Ham
  • Part II: Reconsidering the political and diplomatic dimensions of colonization. The American Colonization Society's not-so-private colonization project / David F. Ericson
  • James Monroe and the practicalities of emancipation and colonization / Daniel Preston
  • The Missouri crisis and the "changed object" of the American Colonization Society / Nicholas P. Wood
  • Situating African colonization within the history of U.s. expansion / Brandon Mills
  • Experiments in colonial citizenship in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill
  • The American Colonization Society and the Civil War / Sebastian N. Page
  • Part III: Redirecting the field and offering new answers to old questions. The Cape Mesurado contract: a reconsideration / Eric Burin
  • "A desire to better their condition": European immigration, African colonization, and the lure of consensual emancipation / Andrew Diemer
  • The end of emancipation street: "civilization," race, and cartography in colonial Liberia / Robert Murray
  • Rewriting their own history; or, the many Paul Cuffes / Matthew J. Hetrick
  • The changing legacy of Civil War colonization / Phillip W. Magness
  • Rethinking colonization in the early United States / Nicholas Guyatt.

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